Here are a variety of pieces of music written by me, some acoustic, some electronic. My apologies for the sound quality on computer-generated MIDI files!
Op. 1. Piano solo (2009)
Was about 20 years in the writing, this piece! In its final version, it is a four movement piano sonata, with movements in sonata-allegro form, ternary form, a ternary third movement in saltarello form, and a rondo finale.
You can listen via the midi file below, which will play in YouTube music and desktop media players.
First movement (note the exposition repeat behaves a bit oddly here)
Op. 2. (1998)
Premiered at Silwood Park, Imperial College, Ascot, UK.
Please listen to part of this electronic performance, created using BoxyLady.
Scored for two violins, viola, and cello, this three-movement is structured a little like a concerto grosso, with a fugal second movement.
You can listen via the midi files below, which will play in YouTube music and desktop media players.
Op. 3/1. For SATB chorus (1998 version)
For SATB chorus and organ (2011 version, with Nunc Dimmittis)
Premiered at Silwood Park, Imperial College, Ascot, UK (1998 version), and at the Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling, UK by Stirling University Choir (2011 version).
Please listen to this live recording from the Church of the Holy Rude.
The arch-form Magnificat was alone in the original version of this piece. I later paired it with a Nunc Dimittis and added an organ accompaniment.
Op. 3/2. For SATB chorus and organ
Having put together a couple of psalm tunes, I decided I was only a few calls and responses away from having a full Anglican evening service.
Op. 4. Movement for string orchestra (2001)
Movement for string orchestra.
This piece was my entry into a little composition competition at the University of Edinburgh. It's quite bouncy, and has a rather obscure reference to a particular episode of Grange Hill in it.
You can listen via the midi files below, which will play in YouTube music and desktop media players.
Op. 5/1. For TTBB chorus (2011)
Words traditional.
This was for a virtual Christmas card a few years ago, in close four-part harmony.
Please listen to an all-Darren choir singing here in YouTube.
Op. 6. Piano solo
Premiered at Holy Trinity Church, Stirling.
After performing the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with Stirling Orchestra, I thought I'd try my own set of variations on the same theme. Each variation is in the style of a different composer! And then as a nod to the Goldberg Variations, the final variation is a mash-up, in this case a mash up of themes that themselves have inspired sets of variations. It works better than that description would suggest.
Please listen to this home recording on my Clavinova. Not necessarily the most expert performance here!
Op. 7. Piano solo
Not yet quite complete... Work in progress.
Please listen to this home recording on my Clavinova of part of the first movement.
This piece is in four movements: sonata-allegro form, ternary adagio, a scherzo (in abbridged sonata form), and a finale. The main themes of the piece appear cyclically in all movements, and the piece as a whole has sonata-allego features.
Online LP (2016)
Breamscape is a selection of tracks produced using BoxyLady, my project to produce a music sequencer that avoids restrictions of tempo, pitch, tuning system, and rhythm.
All tracks are produced from the ground up, starting by synthesising the very waveforms (in BoxyLady) that constitute the notes and ambient effects.
Many of the tracks on Breamscape have an aquatic connection. Hence the terrible pun.
Please listen here on BandCamp. You can even buy the tracks or the whole album if you like!